From the Booker prize website:
'Chip told us not to go out. Said, don’t you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you…’ The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero’s bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there’s more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero’s fate was settled. In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don’t tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong…

Bought as part of the 2011 Man Booker challenge. The people on the bookring (in no particular order are:
LadyIndigo
Jubby
Fleebo
tqd
goodthinkingmax

There are 4 types of Booker book - the amazing, the "huh?", the "meh", and the absolutely awful. This falls somewhere between the middle two categories. It's quite interesting, suitably evocative of both the jazz scene of the 30s and the claustrophobia of Nazi-occupied Europe. But it's not really what I'd imagine of a Booker book - a little too run-of-the-mill - and it's not really memorable enough for me to care either. I had several opportunities to read it where I chose to read other things instead.

Overall summary: inoffensive.

I've passed this on this to Fleebo for her Booker collection.

Passed on to me from miss-jo over some rather nice beer at the Hive Bar in Erko (although far too much noise). Thanks! Onto Mt TBR it goes...

Clearing books I've held onto for too long. This one is being released at BookDrinks tonight!

Happy hunting/reading!

Collected at the Sydney meet-up.